When pride is louder than love, who bleeds first? He was the only man she ever loved. Now he's the only man she wants to destroy. Hazel Vexley and Iyan Armani were everything once until one night ripped them apart. Five years later, they're both CEOs, both powerful, and both still burning from the same wound. Every gala, every boardroom, every stolen glance is a battlefield. He wants revenge. She wants to watch him break. But when the lights go down and the masks slip, hate starts tasting dangerously like desire... ••• "You still tremble when I'm close," he whispered, caging her against the wall. Hazel looked up at him, eyes dark and defiant. "Keep dreaming, Armani. The only thing I'll ever do when you're close is ruin you."

Eros - He was the boy who lost everything. The boy who once loved fiercely, selflessly, tragically. A soul carved from heartbreak, wrapped in grief, poetry, and silence. He pushes. He breaks. He no longer believes in "forevers." His love has once ended. Now, he hides behind poems and a guarded heart, haunted by a past that refuses to let go. Arya - She was the girl who promised to bring his smile back. Drawn to lost things and familiar sadness, she glows with untold truths and a strange sense of déjà vu. She stays. She bends. She remembers something her heart won't let her forget. In a world where memories lie and grief lingers like smoke, two souls haunted by the past collide again. Their souls seem to recognize each other before their minds do. But love like theirs doesn't come without ruin. And not all stories are meant to end in light. A story about second love, unspoken promises, and a love that feels written in the stars. A tale of love that rises from ashes, and two hearts orbiting each other like the moon and the earth. ~~ "You are my moon." "And you are a poet." "Who should defend the moon, if not the poet?"

Elysian (adjective) : Relating to or characteristic of heaven or paradise/ a blissful state "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks." ~ Plutarch {No copying/translation of the work is allowed.} Rankings: #4 in Romantic Poems (30/08/22) Awards: 3rd in "The Pageturners Awards" 2nd in "The Final Rose Awards"